RE: FLASH: Why? does this work?

[Chris Tifer]

Well, at first glance, I would say it doesn't need stop 

actions inside the Count Movie because when he uses 

Tell Target, he specifies to Stop, not Go To And Play.


Chris


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Subject: FLASH: Why? does this work?



I am looking at an example in James Mohler's Graphics Animation and

Interactivity. It is a simple variable that is incremented on a button

increase.  What I don't understand is why it works!  I understand how the

variable is increased but not how the display [the MC 'COUNT'] works. 

Each button press increments MyVal.  But the Counter MC is simply 10

frames where the words in each successive frame are  MyVal = 1, My Value

=2, etc. The first frame has a stop action. BUT no subsequent frame has a

STOP action. So it would appear that once you go to frame two of the MC,

it should play through to number 10.


When you click on the button, the value of MyVal appears on the stage

next to the button, and increments accordingly. 


Secondly, I am not sure what the trace actions and the level 0 direction

have to do with the effectiveness of the code.



Symbol: Button 

Track as button 

 

On (Release, Release Outside) 

   Set Variable: "MYVAL" = MYVAL+1 

   Trace ("The variable MYVAL = " & MYVAL) 

   Begin Tell Target ("/Count") 

      Go to and Stop (_level0:MYVAL) 

      Trace ("The Counter Movie clip is in frame " & /Count:_currentframe) 

   End Tell Target 

End On 




Please help me understand what I'm missing. Thanks.


 Jeff


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